#OccupyLSX

Posted on October 16, 2011

I was in London yesterday, so I went along to St Paul’s Cathedral to the Occupy London Stock Exchange gathering. As you can see from the photos, I eventually managed to get through one of the numerous police barriers that had been set up around it……

Thankfully I missed Assange. In fact I wasn’t aware he’d been there until I was on my way home. Why the fuck he was invited to speak I have no idea – as I’ve said before: it’s bloody leftie men selling out women again.

cath, i uploaded radfem OWS brochures at the radfem HUB blog in both MS word and PDF, for anyone who is attending OWS protests worldwide and wants to distribute radical feminist literature to protest the liberal men selllng women out, again. here are the links:

Your comment about “numerous police barriers” sounds as though it’s trying to paint the picture of a police state mentality (though it’s “deniable” of course).

The police presence isn’t surprising, is it, after the events of August? I suppose the rioters were anti-capitalist too in their own way, with their average of how many previous convictions was it? 10? 15?

We’ve all plenty of sympathy with those who distrust the rich bankers (even the Telegraph is running articles saying this kind of thing). But look another view of the Occupy protests for a moment. Just how much Solidarity (yucky word) do you want to give them?

Hmm, not really sure about this one at all. Whilst I agree that unfettered capitalism seems to be making an awful bollocks of things, the protest does run the risk of coming across as participated in by folks who aren’t necessarily that much part of the oppressed masses. This may be unfair, but I am judging by the fact that one of their spokesmen has a profile on Linkedin describing him as a freelance PR. That and the fact that the really oppressed people in the UK aren’t likely to be able to go and camp out side St Paul’s for days on end as they tend to be doing stuff like being unpaid carers and/or minimum wage (or below minimum wage jobs), having to jump to the tune of the jobcentre or get their benefits stopped etc.

What I’d really like to know (well one thing at least, there are hundreds) is when the world started being run by the likes of Standard and Poor. Can’t we just tell them to take a running jump, instead of worrying about losing our triple A rating (do we still have it?) Particularly since their track record (Lehman Brothers) ain’t that great.

I think it is obvious that Assange is trying to drum up support. The protestors should start booing him if he tries this again. And that goes for his slimy mate Pilger who is using his media contacts to suggest it’s all some kind of conspiracy. You’ve got to take a stand against these fakes using the platform for their own personal gain.

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